Re[2]: [Chicken-users] Questions on changing Chicken runtime and some other stuff

[Sergey Khorev]

fw> > Generally speaking, a replacement of the runtime system should be
fw> > possible, but maybe not desirable. I think that the special stack
fw> > allocation technique employed by CHICKEN will probably integrate badly
fw> > with most other language runtimes and that forcing the CHICKEN runtime on
fw> > top of another system might incur quite a performance loss.
fw> >
fw> Yes, indeed. On the other hand Cheney-on-the-MTA can be applied
fw> to implement tail-calls and first class continuations on a host language
fw> that doesn't provide them. On a C platform we can integrate GC right
fw> into this model and get very high allocation speed.
fw> But I'm still not sure what Sergey is trying to achieve here: should the
fw> hypothetical chicken we talk about still target C, but use a different 
runtime-
fw> system (GC, data-representation, ...)?

The idea was to use Chicken as an embedded interpreter but don't have two GC's 
in one process.